United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013 This report presents a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in drug markets. It covers production, trafficking, consumption and the related health consequences.
Prescription Drugs
Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: A Research Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders (Second Edition)
National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003 This guide for parents, educators, and community leaders focuses preventing youth drug use; this edition includes updated principles, new questions and answers, new program information, and expanded references and resources....
Prescription Drug Abuse: Strategies to Stop the Epidemic 2013
Trust for America’s Health, 2013 This report reviews prescription drug abuse rates and trends, as well as examines state and national policies and recommendations to combat prescription drug misuse.
Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, 2013 This toolkit equips communities and local governments with material to develop policies and practices to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. This toolkit addresses issues for first responders,...
National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012 This report and detailed tables present a first look at results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the...
Monitoring the Future National Results on Drug Use: 2012 Overview, Key Findings on Adolescent Drug Use
Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, 2012 This survey encompassed about 45,400 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students in 395 secondary schools nationwide. The first published results are presented in this report. Recent trends in the use of licit...
Marijuana Continues to be the Most Commonly Used Illicit Drug Among U.S. Residents; Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs Decreases
Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland, 2012 This document concludes that Marijuana continues to be the most widely used illicit drug in the U.S. The document includes data about the number of users of Marijuana vs. other drugs from 2002 to...
Literature Review (2006-2013): Strategies and Interventions for Reducing Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs
SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, 2013 This inventory includes an overview of the relevant literature, descriptions of individual studies, and guidelines for using the document to inform prevention planning.
Literature Review (2006-2012): Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs
SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, 2012 Using a social-ecological framework, this document identifies risk and protective factors related to the nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) based on articles published between 2006 and...
Implementation of the Communities That Care (CTC) Prevention System by Coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study (CYDS)
National Institute of Health, 2010 This paper compares 12 community prevention coalitions implementing the CTC system prevention coalitions located in the 12 control communities. The CYDS coalitions implemented significantly more of the CTC core intervention elements,...